Henrique José de Figueiredo Garcia Pereira was born in 1945, in Lisboa, were he had his secondary education. In 1969 he graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisboa) in Chemical and Mining Engineering. In 1970 he took the Geostatistics Course in the Centre de Geostatistique de l’École des Mines de Paris, under the supervision of G. Matheron . In 1978 he took the “Cours de Geostatistique des Phenomenes non-stationnaires”, with G. Matheron, in Fontainebleau. In 1981 he received a Ph. D. in Mine Planning from the Technical University of Lisboa, under the supervision of André Journel, from Stanford University. In 1990 he obtained the degree of “Agregação” from the Technical University of Lisboa, with a lecture on “Methodologies for Data Analysis in Geology and Mining”.